HMS Royal Oak

HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat at the Battle of Jutland as part of the Grand Fleet.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: 1914 Revenge-class super-dreadnought battleship
  • Also known as: “HMS Royal Oak (08)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Scapa distillery and Howa.

Distillery
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is a Scotch whisky distillery on The Mainland of , Scotland on the shore of near the town of . Scapa is the third-northernmost whisky distillery in Scotland, 1⁄2 mile south of the Highland Park Distillery. is situated 2½ miles north of HMS Royal Oak.

House
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is a house, which is situated 2 miles southeast of HMS Royal Oak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Mary’s and St Ola.

Village
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St Mary's is a small village in the parish of on , , Scotland. It was originally a fishing port. Orkney F.C., the island group's main football club, plays its home games at The Rockworks Community Park, St. is situated 3½ miles southeast of HMS Royal Oak.

Locality
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is a parish on . It is in the centre of the island, east of the parish and north of Holm. It contains the capital and largest town of the Orkney archipelago, . is situated 3½ miles north of HMS Royal Oak.

Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the chief town of the , which lie off the north tip of mainland . With a population of about 10,000 in 2020, has accommodation and other amenities and is the obvious base for exploring these islands.

HMS Royal Oak

Latitude
58.92924° or 58° 55′ 45″ north
Longitude
-2.98641° or 2° 59′ 11″ west
Open location code
9CCVW2H7+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1265272166
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­wreck
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q620472
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“HMS Royal Oak” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Arabic: “أتش أم أس رويال أوك (08)”
  • Arabic: “أتش أم أس رويال أوك”
  • Basque: “HMS Royal Oak (08)”
  • Basque: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Bulgarian: “Роял Оук (линеен кораб, 1914)”
  • Bulgarian: “Роял Оук”
  • Catalan: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Chinese: “皇家橡樹號戰艦”
  • Czech: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Dutch: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Estonian: “Royal Oak”
  • Finnish: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • French: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • German: “HMS Royal Oak (08)”
  • German: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • German: “Royal Oak”
  • Hebrew: “אה’מ רויאל אוק (1914)”
  • Hebrew: “אה"מ רויאל אוק”
  • Hungarian: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Irish: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Italian: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Japanese: “ロイヤル・オーク”
  • Luxembourgish: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Malay: “HMS Royal Oak (08)”
  • Malay: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Marathi: “एच.एम.एस. रॉयल ओक (०८)”
  • Marathi: “एचएमएस रॉयल ओक”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “HMS «Royal Oak» (slagskip)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “HMS «Royal Oak»”
  • Norwegian: “HMS «Royal Oak»”
  • Polish: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Portuguese: “HMS Royal Oak (08)”
  • Portuguese: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Russian: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Russian: “Линейный корабль ‘Royal Oak’”
  • Russian: “Линкор ‘Royal Oak’”
  • Russian: “Линкор Royal Oak”
  • Russian: “Ройял Оук”
  • Slovak: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Slovenian: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Spanish: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Spanish: “Royal Oak”
  • Swahili: “HMS Royal Oak (08)”
  • Swahili: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Swedish: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Turkish: “HMS Royal Oak (08)”
  • Turkish: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Ukrainian: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • Vietnamese: “HMS Royal Oak”
  • “HMS Royal Oak”

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